La La Land wins 5 BAFTAs
The hot favourite going into the British Academy Film Awards, the first original musical for decades, La La Land, has delivered on its
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La La Land’s Damien Chazelle feted by fellow directors
La La Land’s awards success is continuing with another of the more reliable Oscar-predictors falling in its lap; the Directors Guild of America has honoured Damien Chazelle with its award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film.
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Pedro Almodóvar to lead Cannes jury
Pedro Almodovar will chair this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Photo © El Deseo D.A S.L.U, Nico Bustos The organisers of the Cannes Film
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Record inward investment helps 3 UK-made films top 2016’s box office
A record £1.35bn of foreign money was spent on film production in the UK in 2016, up 18% on the previous year. This
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La La Land leads the most diverse set of Oscar nominations for years
The traditional movie-musical La La Land has followed expectations and dominated the Oscar nominations, with a record-equalling 14 nods. Emma Stone and Ryan
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London Critics give La La Land Best Film – but nothing else
The London Film Critics Circle has named the feel-good musical La La Land its Film of the Year. But the top prize was the only
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La La Land leads BAFTA nominations
Fresh from its success at the Golden Globes, Damien Chazelle’s musical love-letter to Hollywood, La La Land, is leading the pack with eleven BAFTA nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Screenplay for Chazelle, Best Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Actress for Emma Stone.
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La La Land and The Night Manager dominate Golden Globes
The Oscar-tipped musical love-letter to Los Angeles, La La Land, has become the most successful film ever at the Golden Globes, winning all seven of the categories in which it was nominated.
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Superhero battling Oscar hopefuls for BAFTA’s rising star honour
BAFTA has announced its shortlist of stars in the running for its Rising Star honour, to be handed out at next month’s film
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Daniel Blake? Why Him when you’ve got Captain Fantastic? What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2016
Here we go again – another year has come and gone – with hundreds of new films having graced our cinema screens. Some
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Love & Friendship and Moonlight lead London Film Critics Circle nominations
Love & Friendship is up for both Film of the Year and British/Irish Film of the Year Whit Stillman’s bristling adaptation of a
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BAFTA joins BFI’s diversity drive
Films that don’t display a strong presence of diverse talent will no longer be eligible for two of the top BAFTA film awards,
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Globes set up La La Land and Moonlight as Oscar front-runners
The 2017 Awards Season has kicked off in earnest with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announcing a plethora of nominations covering film and
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American Honey, Under the Shadow and I, Daniel Blake dominate BIFAs
Andrea Arnold’s American Honey Andrea Arnold’s first American film has won four awards at the British Independent Film Awards. As well as Best
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Harry Potter casts his spell on Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The stage sequel to the Harry Potter books and films has been named the best play at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Harry Potter
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I, Daniel Blake & American Honey lead BIFA nominations
Hayley Squires & Dave Johns are among I, Daniel Blake’s BIFA nominees Two British films that took their bow in Cannes – including
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Diversity reigns at the London Film Festival Awards
The awards handed out by the London Film Festival are known as the London Star The London Film Festival has failed to give
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Harrison Ford injury film company fined £1.6m
A film production company that admitted health and safety breaches over an accident that crushed the actor Harrison Ford’s leg on the set
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What’s Worth Seeing at the London Film Festival 2016
The London Film Festival Director Clare Stewart tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2016
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The Shepherd, Gozo and Selling Isobel among Raindance winners
The Shepherd won three awards Spanish language films have dominated this year’s Raindance Film Festival awards, with The Shepherd taking three prizes –
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